THE EXTENT OF THE REVISED BLOOM’S TAXONOMY IN THE READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS OF THE COURSE BOOK COVER TO COVER 3 FOR READING COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY

Year 2022, Issue: 90, 497 - 508, 28.03.2022

Yusuf Kasimi

Abstract

The revised Bloom’s taxonomy is a cognitive process model measuring learners’
comprehension levels through the use of filtered terms. The revised taxonomy is the
refurbished form of the former Bloom’s Taxonomy dating back to 1956, which analyzed
cognitive skills. Modifications in concepts, system, format and prominence are involved
in the revised model. The revised Bloom’s taxonomy covers two learning domains that
constitute instructional objectives: cognitive (knowledge) and affective (attitude) and
underlines six levels: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. The
verbs highlight the cognitive practices that learners confront and the knowledge they
facilitate. For example, an action included in the “remember” level may demand learners
to call up the acquired knowledge while a verb included in the “create” level may demand
learners to carry out an efficacious project. Thus, this study aims at discovering to what
degree the revised Bloom’s taxonomy is referred in the reading questions of a globally
written EFL reading course book. On the grounds of the mentioned dimensions, two
research questions were developed to reach answers to cognition levels in the taxonomy.
The initial research question focused on assessing the lower order while the next one
aimed at measuring the higher order cognition level in the related reading comprehension
questions. The contained EFL reading course book was examined by means of descriptive
content analysis technique. The findings of the study clarified that the evaluated reading
course book is deficient in the higher level cognitive domain highlighted in the revised
taxonomy. Accordingly, some assumptions have been made to suggest how the reading
course books which are being produced or will be produced should hint on the revised
taxonomy in their reading questions.

Keywords

Cognitive skills, Taxonomy, The revised Bloom’s taxonomy, Reading skills, Reading comprehension assessment.

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